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NOW that the federal government has begun cleaning up Wall Street's mortgage-backed-securities mess to the tune of $700 billion, it's about time the taxpayers got something back. Read Full Artice...
ONE of the things underscored by both the state budget debacle last month and the current economic woes that were foreseen by many but ignored by Congress is that elected officials aren't working for the voters' best interests. Read Full Artice...
WHEN you give every Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus driver $250 worth of day passes at the beginning of every shift and don't have any way of checking whether they were legitimately sold, expect trouble. Read Full Artice...
PROPOSITION 7 on the Nov. 4 California ballot is this year's champion in the category of sounding great on paper but promising to be crazy-lousy in the execution. Read Full Artice...
Nuclear more reliable
It's hard to miss the bandwagon behind solar and wind power to solve our global warming and energy problems. Unfortunately, there is a penalty to be paid for these renewables. Read Full Artice...
Bailout latest scam
With all the current wrangling over the bailout and the commitment to $700 billion in debt, I must point out the similarities between this latest George W. Bush scam and the one that preceded the invasion of Iraq. Read Full Artice...
Yes on Prop. 8
The "Our View" (Oct. 9), advocating a "no" vote on Proposition 8 fails to provide any convincing argument for changing the historical understanding of marriage in California.
It only wonders how we can stand in the way of love. Read Full Artice...
Tone down rhetoric
Re J. W. Bushbaum's letter (Oct. 2): This letter highlighted a point that I feel is the foundation for what is wrong with our political system (and creates many of society's divisions). Read Full Artice...
This is worse
I reached my century mark just after the party, who claims to be the poor people's best friend, took over our Congress.
It worked! And the party kept their promise. Read Full Artice...
Re Thomas Elias's column: Elias is due his bias but the readers should expect accurate statements behind his point of view.
He wrote "the campaign for Proposition 8 could not name one" way gay marriage "harms" anyone. Read Full Artice...
Sen. John McCain has made patriotism an issue in his campaign for the presidency.
Patriotism is indeed a legitimate issue and Sen. McCain, shot down, captured and imprisoned for years, suffered greatly. Read Full Artice...
I am not a conventionally religious man, or even a very superstitious one, but I do wish George Bush would stop asking God to bless America. Read Full Artice...
A specter is haunting the presidential race - and it is not just the economy. It is the specter of a nuclear Iran.
Economic downturns are wrenching, but eventually cyclical. Read Full Artice...
THIS presidential election may have proven one thing, a mother still can't look her daughter in the eye and say, "you too could be president of the United States."
England, as well as India, Pakistan and Israel, have had female prime ministers. Read Full Artice...
I know that we all get tired when we think about the numerous ballot measures we are asked to decide upon each election cycle here in California. It would be easy to get cynical and vote "no" on all of them. Read Full Artice...
THE audience at the second presidential debate/town hall meeting was, supposedly, made up of "undecided" voters. Anyone who is undecided less than a month before the election hasn't been paying attention and ought to be disqualified from voting at all. Read Full Artice...
AN audience member, back when our "Talk About Parenting with Shirlee Smith" cable television show had that format, stood up and said, in regards to irresponsible parents, "You know, we have to have a driver's license to drive, we have to meet certain. Read Full Artice...
IF you're a Democrat who needs help getting the votes of rural white folks, the go-to guy is David "Mudcat" Saunders, a central-casting political consultant recently made famous by a parade of magazine writers led by The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash. Read Full Artice...
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